DISCIPLINE

Robert Fripp returns in 1981 with three excellent musicians (Levin,Bruford,Belew) and one incredible disc called Discipline. I've never heard a music like this again, which really surprised me at that time.

Ok we will start with the rhiytmic base, which is conformed by Bill Bruford on drums and tony levin in bass, both of them make a superb work! only we must put attention in "Elephan talk" the first theme of the album, this theme is an adventure across a unique line of bass provided by the master Levin with his "Chapman stick". To the same time we have to Bruford in the drums with their mathematical skills, simply awesome

on the other hand we have the vocals provided by the extravagant Adrian Belew and the true master of the progressive experimentation: Robert Fripp

The voices in "Discipline" are fantastic, Belew was at that time a brutal vocalist, with a lot of mixtures and a wide range of colours. "Frame by Frame" is the perfect example of this sentence.

Finally i want to talk about one of my musical heroes. Fripp has been a enormous influence for my generation and my father's generation. Fripp got more solid as guitarrist in this disc, maybe a lot of progressive fans felt disappointed

As conclusion, i should say that this work is fundamental for all the progressive fans, but this is false, a lot of fans didn´t like this record, however the songs showed the new crimson era.

The future of King Crimson begins whit this disc, a cold disc maybe but not senseless

i rate him with 4 and a half stars

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